Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
This evening I went to an interesting lecture at the Carnegie Institute in DC, concerning the nature of scientific consensus, as applied to controversies of the past as well as global warming today. It was an interesting talk, and a thought came to mind:
Libertarians have a great deal of intelligent things to say [...]

An article at Nature News on a new type of anti-reflection coating is titled None More Black.
I don’t have much comment on the science (although it is cool stuff), I just love the fact that a serious science writer quoted Spinal Tap.  Too bad that the writer had to go and explain the title in [...]

By Mona
Bjorn Staerk writes a truly pained, honest and obviously heartfelt mea culpa about his having adopted neocon hawishness post-9/11, and having reviled those who had cautioned against and/or opposed invading Iraq. (h/t sglover in comments below). As one who also had after a period of great ambivalence before the invasion [...]

By Mona
This c0cksucking load of of motherfvcking bullsh1t really plsses me off.

By Mona
A very fine analysis by Greenwald over at Salon, of the neoconservatives’ coded calls for both war and for draconian treatment of war critics and anti-authoritarians. At The Corner’s neocon nest they are unwilling to spell out just what it is they advocate be done about Iran, and as [...]

I haven’t written much about the Walter Reed story – Mona has done more – but man, it’s more infuriating than buying Sudafed. Just one excerpt:
When Walter Reed officials found out that [Joyce] Rumsfeld had visited, they told the friend who brought her — a woman who had volunteered there many times — that she [...]

Al Gore has been at war with us since 1979. Discuss.

Jane Galt:
And can I just say that the ritual humiliation of obtaining Sudafed from a drugstore sets every liberty-loving fibre of my patriotic American soul quivering for Revolution? I mean, sure, that would mean even more if I weren’t already reflexively against our nation’s drug laws. But still.
Oh God yes. I fairly tremble with [...]